Collaborative Partnership in Initial Teacher Education: a Guidebook for Practitioners

The success of the collaborative partnership program depends on whether the collaboration among the partners is based on sound principles that provides the basis for the fulfilment of the partners' roles and responsibilities like reciprocity, on-going evaluation and simultaneous renewal of the bodies involved, and is maintained with a shared vision for future. This Guidebook is designed to help for the reconceptualization of Practice Teaching under the umbrella of collaborative faculty-school partnership program. It provides thorough documentation to assist all partners participating in the organization and implementation of the partnership and Practice Teaching course in schools. Therefore, it is intended as a comprehensive guide for English language student teachers, supervisors, the department coordinator, the Chair of the Department of Educational Sciences, and cooperating teachers, school coordinators, principals of secondary schools, as well as the Director of General Secondary School Education, working together towards transferring the mission of the Practice Teaching program from rhetoric to reality.